• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    At least Heaven’s Gate kept to themselves. Applewhite was a repressed, self hating gay man who developed that kind of friendship damaged gay men and damaged gay women do. They didn’t proselytize in the later years, they didn’t kill others.

    Trump is more a Jim Jones. Pretend to hold an ideology you don’t necessarily believe (Jones was known for being progressive on race - but was a sexual predator and one wonders what the benefit was). Once the jig is up, take everyone down with you.

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    I just don’t know how he became their Christian idol when he doesn’t even go to church and he has been open about that in the past.

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      The same way Biden got re-nominated even though everyone knew he was brain-damaged.

      Partisans don’t care. It’s all about team color.

    • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      There’s a pervasive belief that god has chosen Trump as his “imperfect vessel” to get his shit done on earth. Therefore christians don’t have to care about the character of the man, he’s literally the force of god on earth to them.

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    The People’s Temple looked tame in comparison. At least they kept to themselves and didn’t push anything to normal people.

    Trump Cultists would absolutely drink the flavour aid when he commands.

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    The day Trump dies will be a very interesting time for his supporters. I could see it going either two ways. One would be them denying it and treating it like when Elvis died people reported seeing him in public and the other possibility is them going full Jamestown.

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      No matter his age and cholesterol levels, they’ll claim ‘the left finally got him’.

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      This is why I think Marc Maron was right: The guy needs to have a massive stroke, so his supporters can see him alive with weakness and disability.

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        I could definitely see that happening and Trump end up in a wheelchair like Stephen Hawking having to use a robot voice to speak or even better we end up with a weekend at Bernie’s situation.

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          There’s little chance a person of trump’s advanced age would be able to work out how to use a speech synthesiser like that, and given that trump can’t read, zero chance that he could do it.

    • Getmeoffthisride1969@lemm.ee
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      They’ll change the legislation for non Americans to gain proper citizenship. Musk will then assume the mantel of leader when Trump dies. Trump will be like after Pope John Paul II or even a martyr. They’ll be mass Christian Nationalist uprising as other in that group would want someone else to supplant him. That’s the new out group after everyone else is taken care of

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    It’s because you have to close your eyes and hold your breath to actually stand that close to him. Placing your hand on him helps ensure that he is at least arms length away or the stench is just too great.

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    It’s creepy that they’re doing some weird religious gesture, but I think it’s a lovely sign of the times that one of the freaks on the left (as we’re looking at it) just has to record this emotional and reflective moment for their socials lol

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    What people forget is that separation of church and state is meant to protect both from each other. The mixture of Christianity with conservative politics creates an unsolvable contradiction between community and individualism that, I believe, has contributed more to the decline of Christianity in the US than the oft cited bigotry and child abuse.

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      When’s the last time Trump even actually got near a church? Was it the photo op during his last term where he held up the bible upside down?